It was as large as a chicken's egg. An ornate letter s, inlaid with many small green stones, glinted dully in the diffused light shining through the tent's canvas roof.

挂坠盒有鸡蛋那么大，一个华丽的S，由多颗小绿宝石嵌成，在从帆布帐篷顶透下的微明中闪着暗淡的光芒。

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In Dar, one morning before my train trip, I made my way to the roof of my hotel for a bird 's-eye view of the city below.

踏上这段火车之旅的前一天早晨，我登上旅馆的屋顶，想鸟瞰城市面貌，有位英国建筑工头站在那里，监督旅馆的扩建情况。

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The stock market went through the roof. From July 1982 through August 2000, the S&P 500 stock price index grew at an average annual real rate of over 12%.

从1982年7月到2000年8月，标普500股指以平均每年12%的速度增长。

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We end our visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the museum's Roof Garden.

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Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

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But of course, during the summer, 'cause it's, there's no roof on it, so

但是当然，因为它没有房顶，所以在夏天

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